Act 48 Meeting #1

Notes from meeting 9/9: (see notebook agenda above)
3:00-3:50
Participants:
Beth, Toby, Donna S., Theresa, Lynn, Liesl, Maureen, Carrie, Donna M.,
  • prioritizing topics for future faculty meetings
  • Being A Writer: big picture - getting teachers immersed into the program
  • PSSA: Looking at the data - but then what?
  • Potential agenda for 10/5 would include looking at a proficient piece of writing and brainstorming the reasons why. Toby will email ideas to Beth by Friday and put agenda together and post to this site for input, suggestions, etc. by Monday


Additional websites from Donna Merin
http://www.writingfix.com/
http://corbettharrison.com/seven_elements.htm -- (this is the page I took the handout from)--scroll the page down—it’s the second green bullet under “What are the Seven Elements?” on the lower right hand side of the page.

AGENDA FOR 9-19-09
Objective: To meet with all teachers of BAW as a follow up to the summer training








Rough draft of script for first meeting 10/5


Comprehension checks:
Collaborative scoring?

This is a great website with videos talking about their writing.
http://www.insidewritingworkshop.org/